How many art handlers does it take to hang a giant Damien Hirst painting just right? You’d be surprised. From perching a 70,000 pound Do Ho Suh “house” into the side of the roof of a university building to de-installing Carsten Höller’s mirrored carousels to lugging a precious Gottfried Helnwein through the halls of the Russian State Museum — the professional installation of art requires a keen eye, physical precision, a practical sense of aesthetics, and the ability not to drop anything under pressure. Yikes. We salute you, art handlers!

Kindskopf (Head of a Child) at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg in preparation for the Gottfried Helnwein retrospective.

1997, preparation for the Helnwein-Retrospective at the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg

A Damien Hirst painting being installed at the Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street.

Marcel Duchamp.

The Mona Lisa being transported back to the Louvre after the end of WWII, 1945.